PM hires ‘spin doctor’

Prime minister António Costa has hired himself a ‘spin doctor’: Former journalist and current president of Time Out Market, João Cepeda has confessed: “He caught me by surprise”. The PM’s office explains the decision, saying that up till recently Mr Costa had a team of advisors handling his communication as well as a secretary of state who sat on the Council of Ministers. Now that the secretary of state position has gone, there hasn’t been anyone to coordinate/ articulate government communication “and the prime minister’s office has to focus on the prime minister”…